Freedom, Feminism, and the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom, Feminism, and the State write by Wendy McElroy. This book was released on 1991. Freedom, Feminism, and the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many feminists have believed that government is the natural ally of the women’s movement. However, this book demonstrates that the opposite is true: government has long been a major oppressor of women and their rights. Feminism is not a new political force; its origins can be traced back to the abolitionist movement before the Civil War. Fighting to end slavery, women became conscious of their own legal disabilities. From these anti-statist roots, the women's movement eventually divided over such issues as sex, the family, and war. McElroy's book traces individualist feminism from those early roots until the present day. Her research demonstrates that in vital issues from sex and birth control to business and science, government has been the real obstacle in preventing women from achieving personal freedom and equal rights. This book discusses such controversies as individualism and socialism in the feminist tradition, economic freedom and the role of women, and the contemporary differences between mainstream and individualist feminism. Through McElroy’s work and those of a distinguished group of contributors, this book issues a ringing call for women to recapture their individualist heritage.
The Subject of Liberty
The Subject of Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Subject of Liberty write by Nancy J. Hirschmann. This book was released on 2009-01-10. The Subject of Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.
Feminism and Freedom
Feminism and Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminism and Freedom write by Michael E. Levin. This book was released on 1987-01-01. Feminism and Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Levin argues that feminists deny that innate sex differences have anything to do with the basic structure of society.
Freedom Feminism
Freedom Feminism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom Feminism write by Christina Hoff Sommers. This book was released on 2013. Freedom Feminism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women's equality is one of the great achievements of Western civilization. Yet most American women today do not consider themselves "feminists." Why is the term that describes one of the great chapters in the history of freedom in such disrepute? In Freedom Feminism: Its Surprising History and Why It Matters Today, Christina Hoff Sommers seeks to recover the lost history of American feminism by introducing readers to conservative feminism's forgotten heroines. More importantly, she demonstrates that a modern version of conservative feminism -- in which women are free to employ their equal status to pursue happiness in their own distinctive ways -- holds the key to a feminist renaissance. Freedom Feminism is a primer in the Values & Capitalism series intended for college students.
Freedom Fallacy
Freedom Fallacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom Fallacy write by Miranda Kiraly. This book was released on 2015-02-19. Freedom Fallacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking on topics from pornography and prostitution to female genital mutilation, from womens magazines and marriage to sexual violence, contributors in this collection argue that the kind of liberal feminism currently rising to prominence does little to challenge the status quo.
